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Q: What did you tap into to play your character of FBI agent Phil Rask in Crackle’s “StartUp”?

A: I’m a big believer in if it doesn’t start with you then you’re kind of not using your best facility, really, because I think in all of us everything resides somewhere under the surface, and it’s about turning up certain things and turning down other things. But clearly there isn’t a whole lot of crossover between me and this guy. But yeah, we all feel rage, we all feel anger, we all feel frustration, so tapping into that was pretty easy for me.

Q: He’s definitely an intimidating character.

A: Which is nice. I just liked playing some other notes. Every part that an actor plays is always going to have a through line, I guess, because it’s you doing it. You know, this is my Rask or it’s my Richard III or my John Watson or whatever. So it’s always going to be via me but within that you can play A, B and C rather than X, Y and Z and just kind of find out what other little notes you’ve got in there. And I love that aspect of the job, of things you haven’t really done much of or things you haven’t kind of given full vent to either ever or for a long time. But they’re really good fun. That’s really the most fun aspect of my job, I think.

Q: And you get to flex some different acting muscles, correct?